Neues vom Nordkap

13.02.2008 16:42

the never ending story...

In this posting I wrote that my Ubuntu system sometimes just hangs at the boot up. It happened again yesterday morning. I could boot into recovery mode, but when booting the full system I got the error message

ata1.00: failed to set xfermode

and after several minutes you end up in a extremely low run-level (initramfs -something) shell where the only useful command is reboot.
That seems to be a hardware problem, it appears in some SATA systems with a couple of motherboards. I solved it with this workaround. However it seems, that this does not reliably fix the business, there are some more options to try, but the involve fiddling around with the hardware or the BIOS.

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My name is Magdalena Luz. I grew up in Switzerland. I studied physics at Humboldt University Berlin, where I used to live in "Nordkapstrasse" (North Cape street). That's how this blog got its name. After a short intermezzo in Copenhagen, DK, I live now in the amazing city of Wuppertal. This is a place the wild, wild West of Germany, built on 7 hills, (which is really the only thing it has in common with Rome) It is populated by the strange species of homo germanicus occidens communis, also known as 'gemeiner Wessi'. And even with her it is light years away from ever being like Berlin.

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